• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.127-129
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• 1997

The high pretilt angles in nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) have been generated on robbed polythiophene (PTP) surfaces with alkyl chain lengths. The pretilt angle of the NLC was observed on unidirectionally rubbed PTP surfaces with alkyl chains with more than 9 carbon atoms. We obtained the Pretilt angle of 15~40$^{\circ}$ on rubbed PTP surfaces with 10 carbon atoms in the a1ky1 chain. Also, the pretilt angles of 65~80$^{\circ}$ of NLC were obtained on rubbed PTP surfaces with 11 and 12 carbon atoms in the alkyl chain. We suggest that this high pretilt angle generation in NLC is due to the surface-excluded volume effect by the alkyl chain lengths between. the LCs and the PTP surfaces. Finally, we conclude the odd-even effect on rubbed PTP surfaces is clearly contributed to the pretilt angle generation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.53-54
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• 2006

We have studied the viewing angle control of a twist nematic liquid crystal display (TN-LCD). The TN-LCD exhibits a bad image quality along vertical direction, due to characteristics such as low contrast ratio and grey scale inversion. The proposed new TN-LCD has the function of switching between the wide viewing mode and narrow viewing angle mode using two tilted LC layers at both sides of a TN-cell Tilt angles of the two LC layers, $14^{\circ}$ and $60^{\circ}$ were required in both wide viewing angle and narrow viewing angle modes, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.5
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• pp.69-79
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• 1998

In this paper, we have proposed a new row signal modulation method in order to display multi-gray image using super-twisted nematic liquid crystal display (STN-LCD), which has no complex computation, high selection ratio, and low driving voltage. By the proposed method, we have implemented a 320*240, 8-gray video-rate STN-LCD. For achieving a video-rate STN-LCD, 6 lines are selected at a time. Each row line is selected 8 times by equally distributed pulses throughout one frame. As a result, we can get 8 gray, video-rate image. The repetive horizontal pattern and the filckering was analyzed and the improvements have been presented.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.324-326
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• 2008

Novel X-shaped molecules containing perfluoroalkyl alkanes as a side chain have been synthesized and characterized. The properties of mesophases were investigated by a combination of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarizing optical microscopy (POM), X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and electro-optical measurements.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.306-309
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• 2008

We proposed azimuthally continuous nematic domain mode characterized by a cone field induced from patterned electrode structure with a circular slit. This mode has good optical performances such as higher transmittance and wider viewing angle through decreasing the demerits caused by domain walls. We could confirm to these optical characteristics by the manufactured sample.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.531-534
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• 2003

The electro-optical characteristics of the In-Plane switching Twisted nematic (IT) mode were studied. The advantage of this mode is not only the wide viewing angle characteristics without adopting any compensation films, but also the wide cell gap error margin. The electro-optical characteristics of IT mode were evaluated by the experiments and computer simulation. In this paper, we studied the viewing angle characteristics, color-shift and response time.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.19-23
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• 2009

In this paper, we review the proposed liquid crystal display (LCD) with a tunable viewing angle consisting of a conventional liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and a thermally variable retardation layer (TVRL) characterized by uniformly aligned LC film with transparent indium-tin-oxide electrodes for Joule heating. In the TVRL, nematic phase is transitioned into isotropic by Joule heating. The numerical calculation showed that the intrinsic wide viewing angle was achieved at the isotropic phase of the TVRL by Joule heating, whereas the narrow viewing angle was obtained at the nematic phase of the TVRL. The simulated and experimental results of the proposed LCD show continuous and symmetrical viewing angle characteristics by tuning the retardation of TVRL using Joule heating. The structure of the viewing angle control proposed here is adoptable to all LCD modes with wide viewing angle characteristics.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.16-18
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• 2009

A three-terminal hybrid-aligned nematic liquid crystal (3T-HAN LC) cell capable of fast turn-off switching is proposed in this paper. By employing the relaxation process initiated by an electric-field pulse, a fast turn-off time of less than 1 ms can be obtained through optically hidden relaxation. A low operating voltage and high transmittance were confirmed through simulations and experiments.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.195-198
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• 2011

Proposed herein is a flexible bistable chiral splay nematic display mode with an enhanced memory retention time under external distortion. By adopting the polymerized reactive-mesogen structure mixed in a liquid crystal layer, local anchoring energy is generated on the boundary between the polymer structures, and the relaxation from the ${\pi}$-twisted state to the initial splay state could be interrupted. As a result, the memory retention time becomes significantly longer, and the stability against the external distortion is enhanced.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.600-605
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• 2001

The electro-optical (EO) performances for the twisted-nematic (TN)-liquid crystal display (LCD) photo-aligned with polarized UV exposure on various blending photopolymer surfaces were investigated. Excellent LC alignment and voltage-transmittance (V-T) characteristics for TN-LCD photo-aligned with polarized UV exposure of normal incidence on the blending photopolymer (polyimide (PI) +PM4Ch(poly(4-methacryloyloxy chalcone))) surface containing chalcone group can be achieved. The EO performances for the TN-LCD photo-aligned on the blending photopolymer can be improved due to the photosensitivity by long side chain of the photopolymer.